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Butter Regulations Committee. 



The following diseases shall disqualify a thoroughbred stallion for the purposes of 

 this Commission, viz. :— Roaring — whistling, ringbone, unsound feet, navicular disease, 

 spavin, cataract. 



If any stallion winning a premium should not serve at least thirty half-bred mares 

 during the season, the Commissioners reserve the power to reduce the premium. 

 The season of service commences on April 2nd and terminates on July 31st. 



Butter Regulations Committee. 



The Right Hon. R. W. Hanbury, M.P., President of the 

 Board of AgricuJture, and the Right Hon. H. C. Plunkett, 

 Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture and other 

 Industries and Technical Instruction for Ireland, have 

 appointed a joint Departmental Committee to inquire and 

 report as to what regulations, if any, may with advantage 

 be made under Section 4 of the Sale of Food and Drugs 

 Act, 1899, f° r determining what deficiency in any of the 

 normal constituents of butter, or what addition of extraneous 

 matter, or proportion of water in any sample' of butter shall, 

 for the purpose of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, raise a 

 presumption, until the contrary is proved, that the butter is 

 not genuine. 



The committee consists of the following gentlemen, viz.: — • 

 Right Hon. Horace Curzon Plunkett (Chairman) ; Sir 

 Charles Cameron, C.B., M.D., Medical Officer of Health and 

 Public Analyst for Dublin; Professor Thomas Edward 

 Thorpe, C.B., LL D., F.R.S., Principal Chemist of the 

 Government Laboratories ; Major Patrick George Craigie, an 

 Assistant-Secretary of the Board of Agriculture ; Mr. 

 Robert Andrew Anderson, Secretary of trie Irish Agricul- 

 tural Organisation Society ; Mr. Christopher Dunn, J. P., 

 Chairman of the Trustees of the Cork Butter M arket . 

 Mr. George Gibbons; Mr. John Gilchrist; Mr. Patrick 

 Hickey ; Mr. Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, M.P.; and Professor 

 John Millar Thomson, LL.D., F.R.S., President of the 

 Institute of Chemistry. Mr. Arthur Edwin Balleine, of the 

 Board of Agriculture, acts as secretary to the committee. 



The committee held sittings at the Board of Agriculture 

 on July 30th and 31st and August ist, when the following 



